“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”

“You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders”

“No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.”

“if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code”

“How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?”

“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!”

“It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion .... It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but grows with the growth and is altered with the change of the nation's needs and purposes.”